Amazon mirrors Microsoft with AI investment

Logistics giant will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Tom Allen
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Amazon mirrors Microsoft with AI investment

Amazon is to invest $1.25 billion (£1 billion) in AI start-up Anthropic, developer of the ChatGPT rival Claude.

The move mirrors Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, which released ChatGPT last year. ChatGPT quickly became the world's fastest-growing app, and sparked a flurry of AI interest worldwide. Soon, ...

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